The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-20
THE COUNTS CAREER.
Episodes in the Life OF a
Masher.

"
The New York Times says: The Cont
Eugene MitkieWicz, who looms up in
Washington, claiming to be the posses
sor of valuable concessions from the
Chinese government, is believed to be
the same person who has arecord in the
police department of New York.
LAS remember Mitkiewicz, said an
old detective, "he was an oVergroWn
boy, probably II years of age, a Russian
by birth and well educated. He was
thin and straight, with dark complexion
and beautiful teeth. His manner was
polished and should call him typical
ladies' man. The author of The New
York Tombs, Its Secrets and Myster les,
mentions him in that work. The chap
ter referred to says that in 1863 a young
foreigner, calling himself Eugene Nit
kiewiCz, stopped at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. He entertained many OF the
young bloods at supper and numerous
ladies sought to secure his attentions.
One in particular he accompanied dur
ing her drives, and it happened that he
took a diamond ring from her finger,
saying he would wear it for few days.
After week or two the young lady's
friends asked that the ring be returned
II was, but with paste gem in place of
the pure brilliant. Mitkiewicz was ar
rested, but was finally released after
some confinement in the ToOmbs on
promising to enlist for the war. Young
Mitkiewicz was taken to a recruiting of
fee, but escaped active service in some
I'M Uo ali
more for false pretenses, but was &C
Quilted. He had been in the coal bust
ness there and in Washington with ]. A.
Cooke, now of Staunton, Va.
Last year a military gentlemen in
Washington asked for a record of the
Count, who was engaged to the daughter
of an ex Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court. The nobleman's
history was carefully investigated and
the above facts revealed and it is pre-
sumed that the engagement was broken
off. Count MitkiewiCz married Miss
Caroline Lester in 1874, in Grace Church
at Amherst. After this ceremony the
couple were remarked by a Catholic
priest in the hotel parlor. The Countess
died in 1885, leaving several little child
ren." Other New York papers allege
that he is bigamist, a swlndler, and an
impoSter or the most adventurous and
dangerous type. His amours at Roches-
ter, Amherst and elsewhere, and his
business exploits in Washington, Phil
adelphia and other cities are related at
great length, and his right to the title of
count is denied.
In an interview with a reporter the
Count said: Il did not intend to say
anything in reply to the calumnies
heaped upon me by the press. Admit
ting that I may have been guilty of
some indiscretIons III life. why should
they all have been raked up at this
time? But defy any one to say that 1
ever did anything for which 1 have
cause to blush. These people that are
spreading these stories against me are
doing it for a purpose. The Turnbull
crowd are jealous. They threw me
over; now they regret it. The Bell tele-
phone crowd are afraid of combina-
ton of the Mackay-Bennett cable, the
Postal Company and others against the
Western Union. They may well be.
Any paper that prints hes about me
will be made to suffer. I've got the
money now to fight them, and you can
rest assured l will"